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pg.117 9 July 1945 I spent several hours in the control tower this morning. It's a wooden structure about fifty feet high with scaffolding-like construction at the top of which is a platform about ten feet long and six feet wide.A roof supported by two-by-fours shaded shadded three benches and two chairs. It was surrounded on four side by wooden boards reaching to a hight of about four feet. Thus there was a considerable open area in the tower which afforded an unobstructed view in all directions.On the benches were several radio sets and a regular broadcast microphone. Suspended from the roof on a pulley arrangement was a signal light not unlike a stubby wide gun barrel about six inches in diameter. It had a regular gun sight along the edge for sighting and the front end, that is, the muzzle end, was a red-green dish and on the underside was a common trigger arrangement. To be used in the event of radio communications failure, it is pointed at the aircraft and the trigger lights a powerful incandescent bulb inside. If it is alright to land the pilot sees a green light flashed at him. If not, the red. With the use of a powerful pair of binoculars